Past, present, and future of the concept of information

Capurro, Rafael

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“…Recently, a number of more explicitly philosophical conceptualisations of information have begun to appear including the semantic theory of information due to Floridi (2004a), and what profess to be proto-scientific theories of information as formulated by Capurro and Hjørland (2003), Capurro (2009) andHofkirchner (2009;2011a;2011b).…”

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“…Race: A Critical Information-Theoretical Perspective . According to Capurro (2009), the term information, at least in its original Greek-Latin and Medieval usage, originally had two meanings: (i) an objective meaning ("giving form to something") and (ii) a communicational meaning ("telling something new"). Consistent with this position, von Bayer (2003) maintains that information should be understood as both inform-ation and information, that is, as involving both the transmission of meaning and the transfer of form (arrangement, configuration, order, organisation, pattern, shape, structure and relationship).…”

Section: A Reflexive Hermeneutic Approach To Race and Informationmentioning

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Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Ali

2012

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During the last two decades, critical enquiry into the nature of race has begun to enter the philosophical mainstream. The same period has also witnessed the emergence of an increasingly visible discourse about the nature of information within a diverse range of popular and academic settings. What is yet to emerge, however, is engagement at the interface of the two disciplines -critical race theory and the philosophy of information. In this paper, I shall attempt to contribute towards the emergence of such a field of enquiry by using a reflexive hermeneutic (or interpretative) approach to analyze the concept of race from an information-theoretical perspective, while reflexively analyzing the concept of information from a critical race-theoretical perspective. In order to facilitate a more concrete enquiry, the concept of information formulated by cyberneticist Gregory Bateson and the concept of race formulated by philosopher Charles W Mills will be placed at the centre of analysis. Crucially, both concepts can be shown to have a connection to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant, thereby motivating their selection as topics of examination on critical reflexive hermeneutic grounds.

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Section: Critical Information Theorymentioning

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Section: A Reflexive Hermeneutic Approach To Race and Informationmentioning

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Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

Ali

2012

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“…It is said that there are information phenomena in cells, words, antennas, skin, cables, thoughts, electrons, brains, robots, communities, databanks, institutions… Hence talking about information is essentially multidisciplinary. On the one hand, the concept has gained a central role in many disciplines scattering its meaning and establishing gaps among them (Capurro, 2009). On the other hand, a theoretical information approach may bridge apparently irreconcilable disciplines providing solutions to some scientific conundrums (Lyre, 2002).…”

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Towards a Transdisciplinary Frame: Bridging Domains, a Multidimensional Approach to Information

Nafría

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2011

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A trans-disciplinary frame is proposed, aimed at addressing the very understanding of information in all its of theoretical, technical and practical problems concerning information. It is based on an already active interdisciplinary International community and a critical mass of research groups at the global level. By means of bridging these communities, a new transdisciplinary science of information might emerge as an integrated framework in which information will be considered in all its formal, natural, cognitive, social, technical, ethical and philosophical aspects.Keywords: Science of Information, General Theory of Information, information content, information measure, information ethics, philosophy of information, information technologies Acknowledgement: The authors wish to express special thanks to the organizers of FIS2010 (Beijin) for their kind invitation and to Mary Jo Deering whose generosity has made possible our participation. We are also grateful to all the participants and contributors in the theme proposal to the European Science Foundation submitted last spring, in which the ideas constituting this article were proposed to vertebrate the new field of science of information.

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“…In the following I summarize some findings from (CAPURRO; HJØRLAND 2003, CAPURRO, 1978CAPURRO, , 2009). …”

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Paper presented at the conference FIS/ISIS 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads — Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, June 3-6, 2015. See: Conference Proceedings. The paper is based on my Apud Arabes. Notes on the Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew Roots of the Concept of Information (Capurro 2014), that goes back to my PhD thesis Information (Capurro 1978), as well as on Rafael Capurro and Birger Hjørland: The Concept of Information (Capurro and Hjørland 2003) and Rafael Capurro: Past, present and future of the concept of information (Capurro 2009). References not listed can be found in these sources.

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Past, present, and future of the concept of information

Abstract: This text provides an overview of the complex history of the concept of information in the Greek

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Race: The Difference That Makes a Difference

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